The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-27
Farm Notes.

There is no necessity for using deliberately
designed poultry-houSes. One with a good
tight roof, and the walls lined with tarred
felt, will be warm and comfortable in
winter, and, if well ventilated, will answer
for summer
Drab grass springs up after every rain 1t
should be eradicated when very youny, and
on dry, warm days If cleaned out in its
first stages the work will be easy, but if it be
allowed to root well and make growth it will
entail vast amount of labor.
1t is well settled that nothing is added to
manurial strength by fermentation The
only thing that can ever be gained by any
degree of the process would be to soften the
fibrous matters so that thew could be more
readily taken up as plant-food-i. e., to act
more quickly.
Since wool declined there has been a
steady demand for sheep of the mutton
breeds, and many farmers have come to the
conclusion that they can make larger profits
from mutton and lamb than from wool
The future will witness a much better
quality of mutton in our markets.
Give to the cows none but the best and
purest food. With no other stock is this so
essential, for the reason that, it has been
fully demonstrated by competent author
ties that the milk is a very prolific source
of transmitting disease germs from
impure food, and especially from impure
water.
OF the varieties of tomatoes the Living
ston Favorite is one of the best. 1t is very
smooth, a beautiful red in color, not so
liable to rot as the Acme. and ripens as
early as the standard kinds. 1t is also
large in size and ripens we'll around the
stem, which is not the case with the
Trophy.
prof &c .e .
some of his statements respecting the best
silos and the best and cheapest way to Sc
cure silage. He condemns the old silo made
OF stones for seemingly good reasons. He
advocates using scantiings-2x boarded
on both sides over building paper, giving a
dead air space
A crop of carrots should be grown on all
farms. 1t is too late in the season now for
such crop, but piece of ground should be
plowed and kept clean until next spring in
order to destroy the weeds before the next
season. The great difficulty in growing car
rots is slow termination OF the seed thus
allowing the weeds to get ahead.
Dragging a harrow over the piowed
ground is one of the hardest tasks that
hofses have to do in farm work, and teams
are often imposed upon while doing it. The
walking is hard for both driver and horses.
and the former is often tempted to ride
either on the harrow or on one of the horses,
not thinking or caring what the conse-
quences really are.
Oxford Down sheep attain to very heavy
weights, the rams at years of age reach
ing as high as 400 pounds and ewes 300
They are the largest of the mutton breeds,
and yield fleece of medium wool weighing
20 pounds. These weights are for special
individuals that have been on exhibition,
but 300 pounds is not an unusual WEIGHT for
rams over 2 years old.
1t is not so much the little red mites in
the hen-house that do the damage to poultry
as it is the large gray body lice, which work
on the heads and necks. Look closely for
them, as they do not leave the body of the
fowls. The sleepy disease in chicks, droop-
ing spirits of the hens and failure to lay,
though well-fed and in apparent health, may
be traced to the large lice on hens
A farmer informs the Department of
Agriculture that he has evidence leading
him to believe that the crows spread hog
cholera. Unless all carcasses be destroyed
by fire the crows carry fragments of flesh
to distant points. He states that he has
found pieces of swine flesh in his fields
apparently dropped there by crows, which
congregate in large numbers in his Sec
ton.
The Indiana man who carefully blanketed
his cows while being MIXED, SO the flies
would not bite them and cause them to kick
over pail and mixer, might have obtained
really humane, and at the same time, last
ing comfort to the cows by allowing them
to rest in a darkened she'd The idea may
really be carried, with profit to providing
such refuge in pasture where biting flies are
numerous. The subject is especially directed
to dairynen.